Building a Resilient Ecotourism Industry in Puerto Rico Post Hurricane Maria
Surprisingly few international or U.S. mainland tour operators offer ecotourism in Puerto Rico!
Megan Epler Wood travels the world investigating how to make travel and tourism a more sustainable industry that both conserves environments and contributes to local people. As the founder of The International Ecotourism Society in 1990, Megan began a lifetime of work in some of the world’s most remote and significant parks and protected areas, contributing to the wellbeing of local people with projects in Ecuador, Peru, Colombia, throughout Central America, Sierra Leone, Kenya, Sri Lanka and India.
As the Director of the International Sustainable Tourism Initiative at the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Instructor at Harvard Extension, she has launched a global effort to review and research how the trillion dollar travel economy can be managed with next generation research tools and more accountability at the local level.
Megan is releasing a book exploring the growing impacts of the tourism industry in the next 20 years, Sustainable Tourism on a Finite Planet in January of 2017. She is presenting information in this blog and speaking at major events throughout the world on its key conclusions.